Combined whip and cane



(No Model.)

O. GODWARD.

GOMBINED WHIP AND GANE.'

INVENTOR 1 *Aa ATTORNEYS.

Patented Dec. 27, 11887.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN GODVARD, OF NEW ALBANY, OHIO.

COMBINED WHIP AND CANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,485, dated December 27, 1887.

Application filed July 2l, 1R87. Serinl No. 244,589. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OWEN GODWARD, of New Albany, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement-in Combined Whip and Cane, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a combined whip and cane whereby greater strength, simplicity, and convenience in its double use is obtained than usual.

I will first describe in4 detail a combined whip and cane embodying my improvement, and then point out Ithe various features of the improvement in claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of vreference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side View of a combined whip and cane embodying my improvementI when extended to form a whip. Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section ofthe said combined whip and cane when contracted for use as a cane. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section showing the telescopic joint of the same when extended as in Fig. 1. Y

The handle A of the combined whip and cane is composed of a tubular body, B, of 'sheet metal, preferably iron, tapering toward its farther'end and covered by a suitable wrapping,O, such as that ordinarily used in covering whip-stocks.

When the article is used as a cane, the handle A completely incloses a tapering whipsection, D, having the usual lash vand made as an ordi-y nary whip of a whalebone or other iexible core covered with a suitable wrapping. When in use as a whip, the whip-section D is drawn outward until its inner larger end binds snugly in the smaller open end of the handle A.

A metallic ferrule, E, is received on the inner end of the whip-section D, and a cylindrical block, F, of leather, rubber, or an equivalent frictional material, is also placed on said end outside the ferrule E, a screw, G, being passed through the block F and ferrule E into the core of the whipvsection D to strongly unite the parts.

The frictional block F adheres closely to the interior of the metallic tubular body B, so as to keep the whip-section firmly in place when extended, While the metallic ferrule E acts as a gradual stop to prevent the whip-section from being drawn out too far, and thus binding too tightly. Y

The larger end of the tubular handle A is closed by a detachable plug` H, a pin, I, being passed transversely through the handle and plug to secure the plug in place.

The outer end of the plug His formed with a socket, J to receive the neck of a rubber or other suitable block, K, when the article is in use as a whip, the neck of said block being also fitted to the smaller open end of the handle A, so as to serve both as a plug and as a ferrule when the article is in use as a cane, asindicated in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a combined whip and cane, the combination,with the inner tapering whip-section, D, of a ferrule, E, on the thicker end of the same, a block, F, of rubber, leather, or the like outside the ferrnle, and a screw, G, passed through the block F and ferrule' E into the whip-section D, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a combined whip and cane, the combination of a tubular handle inclosing a telescopic whip-section, a plug closing one end of the tubular handle and having asocket, and a removable plug or ferrule having a neck adapted to the socket and to the other end of the tubular handle, substantial] y as described.

OVEN GODVARD.

Vitnesses:

J. C. BOONE, FRANK GODWARD. 

